This is becoming a mountain out of a molehill here. I've seen many different conventions (SF and Linux), and generally they haven't got the logistics to distinguish badge types.
Joe, who is a dealer at Linucon, wants to go setup his table in the dealer's room. Bill, who is the security guard at the door, is not letting the public in. How does Bill verify Joe is not a guy who wants to mess us stuff in the dealer's room, without a list?
And if you're saying they haven't the ability to read what the badge says, that's silly.
(There are a couple exceptions, but they're the big paid conferences that have paid staff to throw at checking badges and such. We don't, and there's just no benefit to it.)
Note above.
Also, dealers aren't generally going to be ordering gophers around unless gophers have been sent to the dealer's room to help out by a staff member.
Right...you keep throwing this "Dealer" thing in here, I was referring to general need by other such staff, such as those in Registration.
Let's not invent mechanisms to deal with problems that don't exist yet, ok?
But they will...
Rob
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